Thus we have white points in 5 corresponding to the null points in
4. We have a pink line corresponding to a red line, a light yellow
line corresponding to a yellow line, an ochre face corresponding to
an orange face. This cube section is completely named in Chapter XI.
Finally cube 6 is a replica of 1.
These catalogue cubes will enable us to set up our models of the block
of tesseracts.
First of all for the set of tesseracts, which beginning in our space
reach out one inch in the unknown, we have the pattern of catalogue
cube 4.
We see that we can build up a block of twenty-seven tesseract faces
after the colour scheme of cube 4, by taking the left-hand wall of
block 1, then the left-hand wall of block 2, and finally that of block
3. We take, that is, the three first walls of our previous arrangement
to form the first cubic block of this new one.
This will represent the cubic faces by which the group of tesseracts in
its new position touches our space. We have running up, null f., red
f., null f. In the next vertical line, on the side remote from us, we
have yellow f., orange f., yellow f., and then the first colours over
again. Then the three following columns are, blue f., purple f., blue
f.; green f., brown f., green f.; blue f., purple f., blue f. The last
three columns are like the first.
These tesseracts touch our space, and none of them are by any part of
them distant more than an inch from it. What lies beyond them in the
unknown?
This can be told by looking at catalogue cube 5. According to its
scheme of colour we see that the second wall of each of our old
arrangements must be taken. Putting them together we have, as the
corner, white f. above it, pink f. above it, white f. The column next
to this remote from us is as follows:—light yellow f., ochre f., light
yellow f., and beyond this a column like the first. Then for the middle
of the block, light blue f., above it light purple, then light blue.
The centre column has, at the bottom, light green f., light brown f.
in the centre and at the top light green f. The last wall is like the
first.
The third block is made by taking the third walls of our previous
arrangement, which we called the normal one.
You may ask what faces and what sections our cubes represent. To answer
this question look at what axes you have in our space. You have red,
yellow, blue. Now these determine brown. The colours red, yellow, blue
are supposed by us when mixed to produce a brown colour. And that cube
which is determined by the red, yellow, blue axes we call the brown
cube.
When the tesseract block in its new position begins to move across our
space each tesseract in it gives a section in our space. This section
is transverse to the white axis, which now runs in the unknown.
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